Numbers 26:55
Modern Translations
New International Version
Be sure that the land is distributed by lot. What each group inherits will be according to the names for its ancestral tribe.

New Living Translation
But you must assign the land by lot, and give land to each ancestral tribe according to the number of names on the list.

English Standard Version
But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Berean Study Bible
Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

New American Standard Bible
But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

NASB 1995
"But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

NASB 1977
“But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

Amplified Bible
But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers (tribal ancestors).

Christian Standard Bible
The land is to be divided by lot; they will receive an inheritance according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The land must be divided by lot; they will receive an inheritance according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But the land must be divided by drawing lots. The tribes will receive their land based on the names of their ancestors.

International Standard Version
but the land is to be divided by lot, inheriting according to the names of their ancestor's tribe.

NET Bible
The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

New King James Version
But the land shall be divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

King James 2000 Bible
Nevertheless the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

New Heart English Bible
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

World English Bible
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

American King James Version
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

American Standard Version
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

A Faithful Version
But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers, they shall inherit.

Darby Bible Translation
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers shall they inherit;

English Revised Version
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Webster's Bible Translation
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Notwithstanding, the land shalbe deuided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherite:

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Notwithstanding, the lande shalbe deuided by lot, & according to the names of the tribes of their fathers, they shall inherite.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
yet shall the londe be deuyded by lott. Acordinge to ye names of the trybes of their fathers shal they enheret it:

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Notwithstondinge ye londe shalbe deuyded by lott and acordinge to ye names of ye tribes of their fathers thei shall enherett:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Surely the land is apportioned by lot; they inherit by the names of the tribes of their fathers;

Young's Literal Translation
'Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit;

Smith's Literal Translation
But by lot shall the land be divided; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers, they shall inherit.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Yet only in so far as the land is divided by lot to a tribe and to families.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
However the land will be divided in lots; they will inherit by the names of the families of their fathers.

Lamsa Bible
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lots; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.
















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